The Lost Libraries of Tunis

The Lost Libraries of Tunis
Title The Lost Libraries of Tunis PDF eBook
Author Laura Hinrichsen
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 322
Release 2024-07-02
Genre
ISBN 3111343936

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Title Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences PDF eBook
Author John D. McDonald
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 5538
Release 2017-03-15
Genre Computers
ISBN 1000031543

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The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.

Lost Libraries

Lost Libraries
Title Lost Libraries PDF eBook
Author J. Raven
Publisher Springer
Pages 308
Release 2004-01-31
Genre History
ISBN 0230524257

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This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.

News Notes of California Libraries

News Notes of California Libraries
Title News Notes of California Libraries PDF eBook
Author California State Library
Publisher
Pages 1016
Release 1923
Genre Libraries
ISBN

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Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.

Burning the Books

Burning the Books
Title Burning the Books PDF eBook
Author Richard Ovenden
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 321
Release 2020-10-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0674241207

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.

Report [of The] Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Report [of The] Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Title Report [of The] Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County PDF eBook
Author Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher
Pages 812
Release 1916
Genre
ISBN

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Issue for 1898/99 has historical sketch for 1855-1900.

Index Catalogue of the Townhead District Library

Index Catalogue of the Townhead District Library
Title Index Catalogue of the Townhead District Library PDF eBook
Author Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Townhead district library
Publisher
Pages 568
Release 1909
Genre
ISBN

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